Olympic Tennis on TV and Online

Tracking coverage of Olympic tennis on TV is more complex than following the London subway map. 

Early rounds are on Bravo and Telemundo -- live without time delay -- while later rounds are on NBC, MSNBC, NBC Sports, and Telemundo. Click here for a schedule. Online coverage is on NBC's site, and also on LiveBoxTV, which I've never tried. For details on tennis at the Olympics, check out this section on the ATP site. Here is another link for live online streaming from NBC, which requires a log-in with a "cable, satellite, or teleco" provider. There are tablet and mobile apps here for Apple and Android. 

For those following the Olympics online, there are several resources: Twitter (@olympics) , Facebook (Olympic Hub (http://www.olympic.org/hub), through Foursquare  (foursquare.com/olympics), Tumblr  (olympics.tumblr.com) and (olympicmoments.tumblr.com), Instagram, and G+ (https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/olympic%20games ). Wikipedia has a page dedicated to tennis at the Olympics here. Google created a good hub site for the olymics here.

A draw summary in the London Telegraph here and this is the ITF draw sheet.

Update: Concise tennis list below image. 

More Realistic "Jobs in Heaven" Cartoon

Buddhist son of a Sunni is a capitalist hero. Go figure. See last panel. 

Women's Tennis Deserves Better TV Commentators

Tennis is the only sport I know of where you can tune in to watch a match and spend the entire time hearing the players you wanted to watch being ridiculed. 

Certainly, TV announcers and commentators are often critical of play during NFL or NBA games. But the majority of the time is spent describing the play, and highlighting outstanding examples. 

Not women's pro tennis. 

Roddick Kicks John McEnroe Out

Per NY Post: "A source at the US Open told us: “ {Andy} Roddick said he would only come up to the ESPN suite to be interviewed if McEnroe, who as an analyst had been commenting on his match, was told to leave. He said he wasn’t going up there if McEnroe was anywhere near the suite. McEnroe left without a fight, but during the interview you could see Roddick was still fired up about the criticism.”

Infinite Jest's Eschaton Game Turned into Music Video? No, Really.

Director Michael Schurr collaborated with the Decemberists to make a music video from David Foster Wallce's novel "Infinite Jest".

Murdoch's Testimony Misleading?

While most of the media coverage of l'affaire Murdoch concentrates on the pie-in-the-face and elder-Rupert's crocodile tears of denial, the NYTs (as usual) has some meat in these two articles:

Murdoch's Top Editors Knew | Reuters

Reuters claims top editors at Rupert Murdoch's firm knew about bribery, phone hacking, wire taping, and use of criminals. (Murdoch's empire includes News of the World, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.)

Reporters were grilled for hours each day on their sources, and every expense line item closely vetted, making claims that a few reporters did this on their own ludicrous.

Tea Party Senator Calls Blacks "Aborigines"

Remember, the Tea Party GOP is not racist, and the mainstream media isn't allowed to call it that. 

Fox News Owner's Scandal Broadens: Hacked Prime Minister, Spied on and Bribed Scotland Yard

Ah, the scandal about the scandal-monger's empire keeps getting juicier and juicier.

Fox News Owner Under Pressure in Britain for Widespread Phone Hacking

Rupert Murdoch, who has become one of the world's richest men by building an empire of sensationalistic, right-wing media from Fox News to The News of the World, is under pressure in Britain after repeated disclosures of illegal phone hacking by his company.